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 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/26 - Introduced

 AB-2314 Childcare: alternative payment program: report.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/16/2026 09:00 PM

AB2314:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 May 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2314

Introduced by Assembly Member Rogers
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Elhawary and Quirk-Silva)
(Coauthor: Senator Ochoa Bogh)

February 19, 2026

 An act to add Sections 10228.2, 10228.3, 10228.4, and 10268.1 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to childcare. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2314, as amended, Rogers.
 Childcare: alternative payment program: report.

Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. Existing law requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law then requires alternative payment programs to reimburse childcare providers for providing childcare to eligible children.

This bill would establish a process for alternative payment programs to submit written requests to the department to transfer funds between providers. The bill would require the department to respond in writing to the request within 30 calendar days of receipt
 receipt, and send a copy of the response to the local childcare planning council, and would require the written response to include the department’s determination and a general explanation of the basis for that determination. The bill would limit the department’s authority to deny a funding transfer request to when verified documentation demonstrates that overenrollment or projected service obligations did not occur during the fiscal year for which the request was made. The bill would require the department to consult with statewide networks of alternative payment program contracts and other childcare and development stakeholders in implementing these provisions. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by means of all-county letters, childcare bulletins, or similar written instructions until regulations are adopted. This bill would also make various other changes relating to the department’s fiscal management of alternative payment programs,
 including by, among other things, requiring the department to conduct periodic fiscal reviews during each fiscal year and requiring the department to utilize fiscal projection methodologies, as specified.

 This bill would also prohibit an alternative payment program from disenrolling a family, transferring a family to another alternative payment program contractor, or separating siblings receiving services, as a result of enrollment balancing due to the addition of a newly eligible child to the family. The bill would prohibit the department from moving or reassigning a family to a different contractor or service area if the family is actively enrolled and receiving services through an alternative payment program, unless the current contractor and proposed contractor agree to the transfer in writing.

The bill would require the department, on or before September 1 of each year, to provide to the Legislature and the Department
 of Finance
 Finance, and to publish on its internet website, a summary of childcare and development funds allocated and expended during the prior fiscal year.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) California has made historic investments in subsidized childcare and early learning to support working families, promote continuity of care, and strengthen the state’s economy.

(b) Ensuring that appropriated childcare and development funds are fully and effectively utilized is critical to advancing the Legislature’s intent